February 26, 2014
I looked at their website and I want to ask them all about 3D printing and how the program correlates with the printer because a lot of stop motion companies now use 3D printing to make the thousands of faces for their characters and I want to know if it's a direct correlation between what's on the screen and what kind of planning is involved so that it prints correctly. I also want to know what kinds of materials they print in, and if they just use the print as a mold or if they use the print? And what kind of 3D printer do they use because I'm really interested in getting one for myself at some point, maybe next year with my tax refund, I'm not really sure. And do you have to have very specific dimensions when you're 3D printing so it will come out the perfect size?
I really want to transfer all of that knowledge over to puppets because they used 3D printing for ParaNorman and I feel like it's a really valuable tool that not many people know about, because I have no idea how it works or what I need to know about modeling, or if you have to use a specific program, or if you can hook it up to whatever program you want and this is so exciting I never thought I'd get to talk with people who actually work with 3D printers. Anyways, those are all my questions and I think writing them down will help me try to remember them all.
Shelby
Wednesday, February 26, 2014
Word Play
February 26, 2014
So I figured out how to wrap my flesh texture around my first word which took a little digging on youtube but I figured it out. I didn't do a storyboard so I might do that but I might try to do it digitally since I never work that way and it would be great practice for me and would put me out of my comfort zone. Also have a screenshot of my texture for the first word. I think I like the font so far and I want to look into how I can melt into, kind of like rotting into dead. I actually kind of want to model my own word dead and make it into bones so the alive melts away and reveals dead underneath.
So I figured out how to wrap my flesh texture around my first word which took a little digging on youtube but I figured it out. I didn't do a storyboard so I might do that but I might try to do it digitally since I never work that way and it would be great practice for me and would put me out of my comfort zone. Also have a screenshot of my texture for the first word. I think I like the font so far and I want to look into how I can melt into, kind of like rotting into dead. I actually kind of want to model my own word dead and make it into bones so the alive melts away and reveals dead underneath.
I like the gross flesh texture, although it was one of the least gross I could find. Don't google search flesh, it's really nasty. Anyways, I'll get to work on the storyboard and animating tomorrow after a short nap after my class, and I'm also going to get to work on my other class homework. But I'm going to try and make this class and audio video more of a priority because they've been taking a back seat to 2D character lately. But I'm going to try and get back on track.
Shelby out
The Oracle
February 26, 2014
So I just put the glass texture on the oracle and animated it. I'm waiting for a preview to render and it's rendering so I can see the test. I also put the zinc texture on the oracle as well. I wanted to see how it would work with light so I put some lighting and some stand in grass for right now so that I can see how the glass reacts with the oracle. Man the render time for this thing is huge. I didn't like how it animated so I went back and fixed the transparency animation because I didn't like it so I'm waiting for another render file just so I can see how it will be. Then I will save a copy with and without animation so that we can use one for the fly through and then we can animate from there instead of in my file, although I really like to preview things before I do them.
Also I can work on my word play assignment tomorrow night because I have work 7-12 tomorrow morning and my class is only until 2 so I should be able to work on this after a short nap because I will still be exhausted from my 13 hour day today in the same room.....
But I should be fine for tomorrow to work on this and some other class stuff. I'm really tired right now though.
Ok, so I rendered the whole thing, then got rid of the animation, then fixed up Brandon's model even though there are still some holes in it that I can't fix. I uploaded it for the basic fly through and hopefully it will work alright. I'm going to try not to be too busy for this class but I think I might be allowed to do a stop motion short for my audio video class so this weekend might be nuts. Because I am nuts and I will probably build a whole set and character and costumes. Man I am crazy. But I always jump at the chance to do stop motion.
Shelby out
So I just put the glass texture on the oracle and animated it. I'm waiting for a preview to render and it's rendering so I can see the test. I also put the zinc texture on the oracle as well. I wanted to see how it would work with light so I put some lighting and some stand in grass for right now so that I can see how the glass reacts with the oracle. Man the render time for this thing is huge. I didn't like how it animated so I went back and fixed the transparency animation because I didn't like it so I'm waiting for another render file just so I can see how it will be. Then I will save a copy with and without animation so that we can use one for the fly through and then we can animate from there instead of in my file, although I really like to preview things before I do them.
Also I can work on my word play assignment tomorrow night because I have work 7-12 tomorrow morning and my class is only until 2 so I should be able to work on this after a short nap because I will still be exhausted from my 13 hour day today in the same room.....
But I should be fine for tomorrow to work on this and some other class stuff. I'm really tired right now though.
Ok, so I rendered the whole thing, then got rid of the animation, then fixed up Brandon's model even though there are still some holes in it that I can't fix. I uploaded it for the basic fly through and hopefully it will work alright. I'm going to try not to be too busy for this class but I think I might be allowed to do a stop motion short for my audio video class so this weekend might be nuts. Because I am nuts and I will probably build a whole set and character and costumes. Man I am crazy. But I always jump at the chance to do stop motion.
Shelby out
I need to blog more..... Because I got an academic alert the musical
February 26, 2014
I didn't know we were supposed to work on the word play and the oracle at the same time so I need to start on my word play assignment...... This semester is really stressful and I'm trying to keep on top of everything. I'm sorry I would have posted about my progress more if I had made any. Well I lightened up the glass for the oracle and I looked at wood and zinc textures but I didn't know what they were for so I didn't model anything texture wise. But the glass should be pretty much done, I sent it to Anna for final approval but I'll have to wait and see if she likes this one better.
Shelby
I didn't know we were supposed to work on the word play and the oracle at the same time so I need to start on my word play assignment...... This semester is really stressful and I'm trying to keep on top of everything. I'm sorry I would have posted about my progress more if I had made any. Well I lightened up the glass for the oracle and I looked at wood and zinc textures but I didn't know what they were for so I didn't model anything texture wise. But the glass should be pretty much done, I sent it to Anna for final approval but I'll have to wait and see if she likes this one better.
Shelby
Wednesday, February 19, 2014
Glass Animation
February 19, 2014
So I just have to keep fixing the blue for my homework I think and I might look at the zinc texture also the building because I just have a little bit of tweaking left to do. I have other homework to do but since this doesn't seem to be taking very long so I'll look at the zinc texture tomorrow and Friday along with the glass coloring.
Shelby
So I just have to keep fixing the blue for my homework I think and I might look at the zinc texture also the building because I just have a little bit of tweaking left to do. I have other homework to do but since this doesn't seem to be taking very long so I'll look at the zinc texture tomorrow and Friday along with the glass coloring.
Shelby
Tuesday, February 11, 2014
Oracle Structure
February 11, 2014
So for the structure I would make a bunch of planes and then make it as transparent as she wants. I've felt pretty successful with planes so far and that way we could make them the right sizes if we want. That way you could also select each individual plane in order to color and texture them differently, as they appear to be slightly different colors in some of the pictures. The top of it might have to be constructed a different way but I think most of the panels would be best as planes.
Shelby
So for the structure I would make a bunch of planes and then make it as transparent as she wants. I've felt pretty successful with planes so far and that way we could make them the right sizes if we want. That way you could also select each individual plane in order to color and texture them differently, as they appear to be slightly different colors in some of the pictures. The top of it might have to be constructed a different way but I think most of the panels would be best as planes.
Shelby
Next Project
February 11, 2014
I'm glad you didn't give us much homework because I really don't have time for anything right now. I procrastinated and now I'm paying for it ughhhhhh....
Anyways, my two words that I want to do for my project are dead and alive. So I think it would be cool to have the alive pulsate and be like muscle colored and textured and then have it decay into dead. I don't know how I'm going to do that but I'll figure it out. Also I don't really have time to list materials and transitions or whatever since I have to stretch and get back to animating for my all nighter, plus I have to shoot some video too so Amy will get off my case about that class.
Anyways I'll post about the oracle on the next post, even though it's going to be really quick.
Shelby out
I'm glad you didn't give us much homework because I really don't have time for anything right now. I procrastinated and now I'm paying for it ughhhhhh....
Anyways, my two words that I want to do for my project are dead and alive. So I think it would be cool to have the alive pulsate and be like muscle colored and textured and then have it decay into dead. I don't know how I'm going to do that but I'll figure it out. Also I don't really have time to list materials and transitions or whatever since I have to stretch and get back to animating for my all nighter, plus I have to shoot some video too so Amy will get off my case about that class.
Anyways I'll post about the oracle on the next post, even though it's going to be really quick.
Shelby out
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